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Lostplanet22 on 30 October 2010

Yeah something is really wrong in Russia...I heard today Russia and USA had an joint military mission (in Afghanistan)..


Honestly I don't know much about Russia but isn't the low life expenditure of males in Russia still because of the big loss of Russia in WWII....Sure working in cold Russia doesn't help aswell but if the average Female life expenditure is 74 years their must be something drastic..

I wonder though what the suicide reason is for the most persons is in Russia..winter depression? Kind of schocking to see countries as South Korea, Japan, Finland, France, Belgium, Switzerland in the top 20 of highest rare of suicides.



 

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mjk45 on 30 October 2010
Mr Khan said:
mjk45 said:

i watched a recent news piece on Russia's alcohol problems hospital beds full of mainly men but women on the increase

the average life  for men is 62. they talked about vodka being cheap and how increasing the cost would just drive people to buy the home distilled stuff, we just had a tax on cigarettes here in Australia and  300k gave up based on the increased tax, but we don't have Russia's history of black market and there social traditions the other thing  i noticed was parts of Russia  looked like modern western Europe and parts that looked like something out of depression era US so it is real hard to think of solutions when confronted with the disparities and shear size of the Country

That's always been a problem, of course, though smaller countries have similar issues (Ecuador, for one. A reasonably advanced place in Quito and Guayaquil, but outside that...)

true but then again Russia is one of the most resource rich countries in the world, add those rich's and there equally rich cultural heritage together with it having huge potential in eco tourism due to it being home to some of the worlds greatest natural treasures and it becomes very sad that the people aren't getting the benifit.



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Hus on 30 October 2010

Well there are two Russias, theres Mosow and STP and then the rest which is pretty much third world.

"The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" applie smore to Russia then just about any other nation. 

A huge issue is they are delusional and arrogant, they still dream of being a world wide power with influence like the Soviets, excpet reality is they are down in the gutter unable to focus on their own issues whiel trying to push their aggenda on others. 

National corruption arrogance stupidity delusions of grandeur, their mentallity is holding them back always will.  Just look at history. 



zuvuyeay on 30 October 2010

it must be hard for part of the society to change from state run everything to a dog eat dog world

but russia is only going to get wealthier isn't it? so maybe they'll get a good balance sometime if they can avoid the inevitable civil unrest that will come from inequality 

i think they spend alot of their money in london,when i was around chelsea and mayfair i'd never seen so many super rich russians they gave the super rich arabs a run for their money,lol



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bazmeistergen on 31 October 2010

Some of the comments on this thread are a bit dubious.

I wonder how many people look closer to home regarding arrogance and their own nations.



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